Daaamn, you nailed it just about!
You got good taste, at least, Tanis thinks so!
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Well, perfect for day-night wallpapers.
...Well, that was an amusing spend of 90 seconds.
If you're just wandering around doing street photography.. there is no end to nice places. Check out the water front. Wander down by OMSI. Go check out the Hawthorne shopping district.
If you're looking for places to GO... the zoo or the Japanese Gardens are must visit spots. Also you can go IN OMSI and check out the science museum.
Do you shoot RAW format photos? If so, I'd try looking at your luminance curve/tone histogram/whatever your software calls it. Any photo with a lot of sky and a lot of dark stuff tends to leave the dark stuff too dark - with a histogram tool, just applying to the whole photo, you should be able to brighten up the dark stuff, revealing more detail, without doing too much harm to the sky. Then your classic framing will be better rewarded.
Or take an entirely different approach and work out when the sun will be in the best position to light up the scene naturally.
Monopods (or indeed tripods, or even just bracing against walls) matched with slower speeds might also reveal more detail.
thanks for the advice! i usually shoot jpeg and don't mess with post processing, but i might have to try it out!
If your software does have the right luminance tool, a little effort can really improve photos with light/dark issues, but it does really need RAW format to really work well (it needs the extra info that RAW holds).